there is no such entity as “memory”, but only the dynamic process of “remembering” (he is always at pains, in his great book Remembering, to avoid the noun and use the verb).
Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and fragmentary traces. It is an imaginative reconstruction, or construction, built out of the relation of our attitude towards a whole active mass of organized past reactions or experience, and to a little outstanding detail which commonly appears in image or in language form. It is thus hardly ever really exact, even in the most rudimentary cases of rote recapitulation, and it is not at all important that it should be so. (查看原文)
Bartlett’s conclusion now finds the strongest support in Gerald Edelman’s neuroscientific work, his view of the brain as a ubiquitously active system where a constant shifting is in process, and everything is continually updated and recorrelated. There is nothing cameralike, nothing mechanical, in Edelman’s view of the mind: every perception is a creation, every memory a recreation—all remembering is relating, generalizing, recategorizing. In such a view there cannot be any fixed memories, any “pure” view of the past uncolored by the present. For Edelman, as for Bartlett, there are always dynamic processes at work, and remembering is always reconstruction, not reproduction. (查看原文)
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奥利弗·萨克斯 作者
严杰夫
【读品】
中信出版社2010版
8 有用 冰糖花木鱼 2018-10-17 21:09:12
如果一个先天失明的人突然拥有了视力，他会如何呢？学习看的压力很可能摧毁整个他。
0 有用 坚定躺平的锡兵 2016-10-02 10:04:12
那些没可能“复原”的精神病人，往往自有其独特的精神稳态，其与常人状态的差异，或许真的堪比火星和地球的差异。了解这些非常态，首先得放下成见。不单单作者要这么做，读者也是。
0 有用 山大王蛇 2018-04-26 01:21:52
(@Suining.)
0 有用 summertime 2016-07-01 09:42:51
一本读完让人暖流直冲心底的书
0 有用 envision 2018-11-04 11:53:31
越发觉得这个世界你认为他是什么样子的他就是什么样子的，或者说世界是不可知的。唯物主义不过是狭隘的一群正常人的自我意淫。被第二个故事感动到哭，第一个故事放在最前面差点让我弃书。